Diary Entry #9
This is a story about the headless woman.
In our dreams, we saw just the severed head or the body. Never both.
She must have cut it off after she died. Maybe death had struck her in such a
way, she realized she no longer had use for it.
We wrote letters to each other whenever the dreams occurred and soon realized
that no two of us ever saw her on the same night.
For many years, we did not know some essential part of her was still alive. We
lacked imagination.
Her voice was lodged in us.
How did she know how to speak such horrible things with our own lips?
At our class reunion, she appeared. She turned as if to say goodbye, then
abruptly changed direction, searching for something on the ground.
This is a story about the headless woman.
In our dreams, we saw just the severed head or the body. Never both.
She must have cut it off after she died. Maybe death had struck her in such a
way, she realized she no longer had use for it.
We wrote letters to each other whenever the dreams occurred and soon realized
that no two of us ever saw her on the same night.
For many years, we did not know some essential part of her was still alive. We
lacked imagination.
Her voice was lodged in us.
How did she know how to speak such horrible things with our own lips?
At our class reunion, she appeared. She turned as if to say goodbye, then
abruptly changed direction, searching for something on the ground.
The Plague Book by Cat Leeches, page 1